Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FANTASTICALLY DIRTY TIME AUG TENTH TITLE CRIME FAT OILY WOMEN ETC WHY AFFRONT FAIR ITALIAN WOMEN WHO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH TO MOST THAT IS FINE IN THIS WORLD STOP POVERTY STRICKEN WOMEN IN SQUALID DOMICILES WHAT STRONG HEARTS THEY MUST HAVE HOW FRIGHTFUL THEIR LOT IN A COUNTRY THAT SQUEEZES SIMPLICITY STOP BE UNDERSTANDING...
...independence from the U. S., sat for the first time. As custom requires, Governor General Dwight Filley Davis appeared before a joint session of the House and Senate to deliver his legislative message. He was heard in stony silence and allowed to depart without applause. He had dared to affront all politicos by suggesting that they drop politics and take up economics for a change...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin refused to participate in a command benefit vaudeville performance before H. M. King George V, sent the vaudeville manager a check for $1,000 instead. Shocked at this apparent affront to Royalty, the London Daily Express sent a reporter down to interview Mr. Chaplin at Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether...
From these remarks it should be gathered that "A Defence of Philosophy" is an admirable introduction to the subject written by one who knows it well. Since philosophy, as Professor Perry points out, "is a deliberate affront upon common sense", it needs some explaining if the common man is to partake of its fruits. Anyone with a retentive memory can speak gliby about Nietzsche's superman, but to receive the benefits of philosophic thought one must first be given some concept of the philosopher's approach to life. That is just what Professor Perry does...
...Silly Symphonies. Like Charlie Chaplin, Mickey Mouse is understood all over the world because he does not talk. The Germans call him Michael Maus, the French Michel Souris, the Spaniards Miguel Ratonocito and Miguel Pericote, the Japanese Miki Kuchi. Although his Christian name might be understood as an affront to Irish dignity, he has been respectfully reviewed in the Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time and the laws of physics are null...